Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century, and global health is one of the areas where this is most apparent. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly conducted not only between public health experts representing health ministries of nation states but include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena. These include philanthropists and public-private players. As health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security policy, and trade agreements, new skills are needed to negotiate global regimes, international agreements and treaties, and to maintain relations with a wide range of actors.

Introduction: The Art and Practice of Conducting Global Health Negotiations in the 21st Century; Navigating the Negotiating Space Between Geneva and New York: A Case Study in Foreign Policy and Global Health; Public Health Diplomacy in the WTO: Experience from Developing Countries in Negotiations on Health and Related Services in GATS and Issues Related to Public Health in TRIPS; Negotiating the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Public Health Joins the Arcane World of Multilateral Diplomacy; Negotiating the International Health Regulations (IHR); Transformative Diplomacy: Negotiation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel; Negotiating Issues Related to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: The Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccines and Other Benefits; Negotiating Equitable Access to Influenza Vaccines: Global Health Diplomacy and the Controversies Surrounding Avian Influenza H5N1 and Pandemic Influenza H1N1; Preparing for Health Diplomacy Negotiations - Global Governance and the Case of Taiwan, WHO, and SARS; China's Engagement with Global Health Diplomacy: Was SARS a Watershed?; Destruction of the Smallpox Virus Stocks: Negotiating for Consensus in the World Health Organization; Negotiating in the World Health Organization: The Intergovernmental Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Public Health; Taking the Fight Beyond Official Negotiations: Stakeholders Mobilise Against Counterfeit Drugs; Global Health Workforce Alliance: Negotiating for Access to Health Workers for All; The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Negotiating a Recreation in Global Health and Development; Negotiating ARV Prices with Pharmaceutical Companies and the South African Government: A Civil Society/Legal Approach; Negotiating Health Reform in Kyrgyzstan: Government Management of Donors and Stakeholders; Yellow Fever and Health Diplomacy: International Efforts to Stop the Urban Yellow Fever Outbreak in Paraguay; Diplomacy and the Polio Immunization Boycott in Northern Nigeria.